The History of the Religious Movement of the Eighteenth Century Called Methodism
Subtitle: Volume 1. Origin of Methodism to Death of Whitefield
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: December 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781421228716
Subjects: history,church,the Bible,protestantism,eighteenth century,religious movement,methodism; Religion / Amish
First sentence: HAD a studious heathen sought to ascertain the nature of the Christian religion, immediately after the completion of its canonical records, and solely from those records, he would have been surprised by its contrast with nearly all prior religious systems, in its suggestion rather than prescription of ecclesiastical arrangements, its general abstinence from ritual forms, and its total abstinence from dogmatic definitions.